Tags: Dylan Smith

RJI Fellow wants to make media, tech companies more aware of need to preserve content
September 16, 2019
Nineteen of 21 news outlets weren’t doing anything to archive web content. A lack of awareness and action in this area has driven Neil Mara to leverage his industry experience and contacts to help find archiving solutions for media companies.
Our cornerstone: A salute to RJI fellows
A LION Is born
October 31, 2018
Dylan Smith was skeptical when, in 2010, he received an invitation to the first Block by Block conference. Leaving his one-person newsroom for a weekend for a conference aimed at local, independent, online news operators seemed like a waste of time.
Mediatwits
Mediatwits 179: Hyper-local news succeeds without the scale
November 13, 2015
Since time immemorial (or at least the mid-’90s), tech and media companies believed that if you rolled up hundreds of tiny hyper-local news sites it would make a boffo business. So many tried and failed.